If you don’t give your pet dog enough attention, no.
A pet dog is happy in the field, whether when we go on a hike, for a walk, or even when we spend an entire afternoon playing ball. However, dogs are social animals that are used to living in a “pack”. Therefore, spending long hours in solitude makes them vulnerable to feeling lonely, bored, and marginalized. One of the most common problems in dogs that spend many hours alone is separation anxiety. This directly affects the behavior of the animal, making it anxious, stressed and destructive.
For that reason, and although we work obedience daily, we can suffer when we observe how our dog becomes disobedient and begins to change its behavior. You can also start to suffer “resource protection” with the territory. This is a behavior that can become aggressive and very dangerous, including to ourselves. The day-to-day time with our pet helps us to create a strong and close bond that will make it follow us. They would also want to carry out our orders, and in short, be happy.
On the other hand, it should also be considered that the most intelligent dog breeds (which are currently the most used in security and surveillance) are the ones that suffer the most when being outdoors. Dogs such as the German Shepherd, the Doberman Pinscher or the Belgian Malinois require a very important mental, social and physical stimulation that if not followed can lead to serious behavioral problems.
To all this we will add that using a pet dog as a guard is a very bad idea. Dogs are living beings that need attention, affection and a family to belong to. Watchdogs are sad, unmotivated animals.
By Pixel-Shot
Don’t shelter your dog too much
Finally, we must also pay attention to an important detail: the pet dog is not an animal that will spend long hours lying down and doing nothing. On the contrary, it needs to run, play, discover and be happy. For this reason, the day will come when the dog will decide to leave the garden or field in which it resides, looking for an insect to chase or a trail that will take it somewhere. It will become an adventurous dog which means that it can go off to other houses to steal food or to the forest with the presence of wild boars, for example. Many people in this situation will decide to tie them up, with which the poor animal will have to spend the rest of their life in chains.
Making your dog antisocial is a mistake
It goes without saying that having a pet dog to be left out, leashed and probably very nervous is a bad idea. If we want a watchman we can hire an alarm. And if we want to enjoy a beautiful furry animal, we better buy a stuffed animal. Adopting to keep an animal out of the house, especially the dog that is so social, is a serious mistake. Let’s not make them unhappy.
If we are evaluating the option of having a dog outside for hygiene, we must remember that there are breeds that do not shed hair, something to consider if we are really scrupulous. But be careful, it is also important to understand that the dog is an animal that likes to sniff (it is a form of relaxation and knowledge of the environment), to be in comfortable places such as our sofa (as we do). Also, that it can drool or dirty a little (like ourselves!). All these details are inherent to the nature of the dog. If we are not willing to tolerate them, then we should not consider having this noble animal by our side.
